You're Asian, you must be smart, right?

For whatever reasons I've been feeling a want to play Earthbond on the SNES. When I told this to people, they said that they had the rom if I wanted it, but if I'd simply wanted to play the rom, I would have said, "I want to play Earthbound". Ultimately it's never quite the same playing the rom versus playing the actual physical game cartridge on the actual system.

Sadly enough however, Earthbound is now hella expensive. As is Mario RPG, Super Metroid, and Chrono Trigger. I've made a sidenote in my mind to start ebaying around when I have some more free time, but I think it's still going to cost me around $100-$150 for all of them :(.

In the meantime I pulled out my SNES and have been playing some old games since: Mega Man X, Kirby's Avalanche, Secret of Evermore.

Now, anyone who played Secret of Evermore should remember that you had to search around and talk to people in order to get new spells. That being the case, there were some very rare spells that were quite hard to find; possibly the hardest to find was "sting".

I played Secret of Evermore twenty million times as a kid. I beat it god knows how many times and most importantly I made a buncha games that were supposed to be perfect. None of them ever became perfect however because there was one spell that was sorta random to find as I understood it. In this one desert in the game there were fountains strewn about in predictable patterns. In order to get this spell, "sting", you had to find this fucker at one of the fountains.
I spent HOURS of my formatives years trying to do this. In fact, the point at which the game was saved when I busted it out after a hiatus of years, was the closest save point to the desert with speed spells equipped so I could run faster and cover more ground and therefore more of the desert.










Now, tonight, it has finally happened. Maybe something like 8-10 years after the fact, I have finally found the damn spell. I have never seen the casting animation for this spell, EVER. I am about to go over and cast it right now. This, is a moment.








PostScript: The spell kinda sucks, but I already knew that. It was largely the principle of the matter.

# posted by Yann : 00:25